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Retired· Arianespace· cargo resupply
In terms of its role, the ATV was designed to complement the smaller Russian Progress spacecraft, possessing three times its useful payload capacity.
Launches
5
every one successful
Spacecraft flown
5
Latest launch
Jul 29
on ATV-5 (Georges Lemaitre)
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Jules Verne ATV
ATV-001
1
First flight: ATV-1 "Jules Verne", 2008
Johannes Kepler ATV
ATV-002
1
First flight: Johannes Kepler ATV (ATV-002), 2011
Edoardo Amaldi ATV
ATV-003
1
First flight: Edoardo Amaldi ATV (ATV-003), 2012
Albert Einstein ATV
ATV-004
1
First flight: Albert Einstein ATV (ATV-004), 2013
Georges Lemaître ATV
ATV-005
1
First flight: ATV-5 (Georges Lemaitre), 2014
During the 1990s, as the International Space Station program was taking place, it was collectively recognised by the 15 participating nations that, upon completion, the International Space Station (ISS), a crewed space station in Low Earth orbit (LEO), would require regular resupply missions in order to meet the needs of the onboard crew as well as to deliver apparatus to support the various scientific tests that would be performed on board. In October 1995, it was agreed that, amongst the various contributions to the ISS program that Europe would assume responsibility for under the vestiges of the European Space Agency (ESA), would be the Automated Transfer Vehicle, or ATV; this logistics-orientated spacecraft would perform the identified resupply missions to ISS.
No launches of this spacecraft are on the schedule.
ATV-5 (Georges Lemaitre)Arianespace · Ariane 5 ES · Ariane Launch Area 3, Guiana Space Centre, French GuianaLaunch SuccessfulAlbert Einstein ATV (ATV-004)Arianespace · Ariane 5 ES · Ariane Launch Area 3, Guiana Space Centre, French GuianaLaunch SuccessfulEdoardo Amaldi ATV (ATV-003)Arianespace · Ariane 5 ES · Ariane Launch Area 3, Guiana Space Centre, French GuianaLaunch SuccessfulJohannes Kepler ATV (ATV-002)Arianespace · Ariane 5 ES · Ariane Launch Area 3, Guiana Space Centre, French GuianaLaunch SuccessfulATV-1 "Jules Verne"Arianespace · Ariane 5 ES · Ariane Launch Area 3, Guiana Space Centre, French GuianaLaunch SuccessfulSpace Launch Now for iOS and Android
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